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A few years ago, Red Hat introduced OpenShift which provides a Platform as a Service (PaaS). There are a number of flavors of OpenShift from Origin, an open-source community project, to a fully managed Online service. OpenShift allows developers to focus on incremental application changes while not having to administer the infrastructure. OpenShift provides a continuous integration framework...Read more

Several years after publishing papers on Spanner and F1 , Google last week announced the Beta availability of what they’re calling Cloud Spanner . Essentially, this is opening the core transactional, relational service they’ve been using internally to users on the Google Cloud Platform. My colleague Barry wrote a great piece on what this means, so I won’t go into detail about...Read more

This week we’re returning to our, “What’s New in NuoDB 2.6,” series with a discussion about the table partitioning and storage group capabilities of this latest release.

Table partitions can be used to improve data management and query performance. Storage Groups enable scale out and improved input/output performance at the storage layer. Both of these features...Read more